Sheep May Safely Graze - The Tabernacle Choir

The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square perform "Sheep May Safely Graze" by Johann Sebastian Bach, and arranged by Katherine K. Davis.

Episode 4565. Aired March 12, 2017.

[MrCrnipeter]

J. S. Bach was really a genius. This choir performs very well.

[judypowers]

I was blessed to be able to sing this with a Regional Church Choir in California more than 30 years ago. There were 300 people singing in this choir, we had an orchestra and we traveled to the different areas to sing. We did sound like the Tabernacle Choir. Max Fisher was our Choir Director. It was wonderful. 💕

[sallietaylor]

My award winning girls choir   at Wombwell Secondary School, South Yorkshire  [1950's] sang this with just as much gusto. It brings tears to my eyes.I miss my school days and the wonderful music mistress Miss Betty Phillips.

[anitahuie]

It's so beautiful. I get tears in my eyes. I want this played at my funeral.

[johnlyetuckleemoe]

Encore! So lovely and sweet. Thanks Mormon Tabernacle and God Bless.

[mnorring]

This should be the Lyrics !

Sheep May Safely Graze

Sheep may safely graze and pasture
In a watchful shepherd's sight.

Those who rule, with wisdom guiding,
Bring to hearts a peace abiding,
Bless a land with joy made bright.

[lepingstepp]

So perfect! This song must be chorus! This is my favorite too, and this version is very high quality. Thank you so much!😊👍

[alfonsomartinezmompean]

Thanks for this more than beautiful upload. Most of versions in Youtube are instrumental but chorus is very important here.

[MustacheStudioz]

the best B roll of sheep in the game. rock and roll for ever TTCATS

[georgefelty]

We are all sheep who have grown astray! Christ is our shepherd!

[iseeisee]

Sheep may safely graze and pasture
In a watchful Shepherd's sight
Sheep may safely graze and pasture
Sheep may safely graze and pasture
In a watchful Shepherd's sight
In a watchful Shepherd's sight

[Verse 1]
Those who rule with wisdom guiding
Bring to hearts a peace abiding
Bless the land with joy made bright
Mmm, oh

[Verse 2]
Those who rule with wisdom guiding
Bring to hearts a peace abiding
Peace abiding
Peace abiding
Bless the land with joy made bright

[rubencorona]

El rebaño puede pacer que bella interpretación.

[JillKnapp]

Today I learned that this is the favorite song of Joe Jack Talcum from The Dead Milkmen. 💗

[davidmehnert]

To be fair, I think you could safely give credit to “Katherine K. Davis with Leopold Stokowski”, and intend no disservice or slight whatsoever, this arrangement being so perfectly transcendent.

I’ve never been in the SLC venue, nor heard the MTC anywhere in person, but I’m seriously impressed at the (many) live recordings I’ve watched, knowing the challenges for both conductor and performers when there are considerable physical distances between ensemble players. Sound does not travel fast enough to overcome the gap, and so the training, and sensitivity, involved in anticipating the beat is ... well, let me just say, I’m humbled the achievement, just witnessing it. And if the world ONLY knew the MTC was an all-volunteer, unpaid gig for its performers, I think you would have all the many more enthusiasts like me. (I hereby volunteer to be your unpaid publicist in that regard.)

An excerpt from a much longer poem by James Merrill, THE CHANGING LIGHT AT SANDOVER, came to mind as I watched this a few minutes ago, transporting me to another favorite place and time in England, perhaps even so far as the dream of Jerusalem as Blake imagined it in his celebrated poem ‘Milton’..

But for today, the last word belongs to James Merrill (1926-1995):

MIRABELL’S BOOKS OF NUMBER, 0.9

...All that follows, they will be glad to know,
Takes place in the course of one summer
Of 1976. Most afternoons
(While Time stood still, or took a little nap)
Found me with DJ, back at the round white table
Under the dome of the red dining room,
Taking down our Voices old and new.

(One last thing to slip in—this watercolor
Of Avebury—a bookmark for the moment,
Until I find a better place dor it:

Within a “greater circle” (the whole myth
Dwarfed by its grass-green skyline) stand
Two lesser, not quite tangent O’s
Plotted monolith by monolith.

Two lenses now, whose once outrippling arcs
Draw things back into focus. Round each stone
(As Earth revolves, or a sheepdog barks)
Rumination turns the green to white.

It’s both a holy and a homely site
Slowlier perfused than eye can see
(Whenever the stones blink a century
Blacks out) by this vague track
Of brick and thatch and birdsong any June
Galactic pollen will have overstrewn.)

— James Merrill, 1978/1982

[edifyguy]

This is Christian music. Unashamedly, uprightly, not imitating the bawdy sounds of those who revel in sin, and in glorious excellence. Would to God that churches would return to this today as a norm.

[wgd]

Please slow it down to provide a greater influence of inner spiritual feeling

[wgd]

From where can I obtain the sheet music for this?

[eunaekim]

This may be the second most stereotypical religious piece of music in the world (the most stereotypical one is the Hallelujah Chorus)!

[karlakor]

The tempo sagged considerably from what it was at the beginning.